Novelist Sheridan Hay will be signing copies of her book “The Secret of Lost Things” on Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 5 pm to 6 pm at Old Saratoga Books. The bookstore is located at 94 Broad Street in Schuylerville, New York. This is Hay’s first book, and has just been released in trade paperback […]
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Philadanco performance creates pefect worlds By TRESCA WEINSTEIN Special to the Times Union ALBANY … After Philadanco’s performance Friday evening at The Egg, it’s pretty clear there’s nothing these 13 fabulous dancers can’t do. The Philadelphia-based repertory company, now in its 38th season, took four very different ensemble pieces, each one rich and distinctive, and […]
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I got an e-mail from a reader today seeking book recommendations, and so I thought I’d send it out to all of you: I have a good friend who now lives in Florida and her son will turn 1 next month. I’d like to send a book or two as a birthday present. Do you […]
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With Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart” on the reading list for the Times Union Book Club, I thought it would be a good idea to include the poem to which Achebe’s title alludes. It is William Butler Yeats’ ‘The Second Coming,’ a classic of modernist poetry in line with T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland,” which […]
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The next book selection for the Times Union Book Club is Chinua Achebe‘s “Things Fall Apart.” Achebe’s first novel was originally published in 1958, and is being honored this year with a new paperback edition for its 50th anniversary. The novel tells the story of the downfall of an Igbo village elder in the face […]
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By DANIELLE FURFARO Staff writer ALBANY – Art rockers Deerhoof deal equally in the beautiful and the bombastic. That combination served them well when they came to WAMC’s The Linda Theater on Friday night. Deerhoof have been underground favorites for more than a decade, since they first emerged from San Francisco in the mid-1990s, playing […]
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Inspired by Radiohead’s pay-what-you-will CD release of its album “In Rainbows,” Fence Magazine, a literary journal housed at UAlbany, is offering a pay-what-you-will subscription. But hurry up, the deal only lasts through the end of the month of April. You can get more information here: http://www.fenceportal.org/fence-in-rainbows/
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WMHT’s Great TV Auction has editorial services available for any writers out there with a manuscript that’s in need of an evaluation. If you’re a writer in search of professional editing, receive this full analysis from a seasoned editor. Novelists will receive a full report via email with analysis of characterization, storyline, pacing, line-by-line craft, […]
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`How to Succeed’ is light, charming fare By MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union SARATOGA SPRINGS … One day he’s washing windows, the next he’s the chairman of the board. He’s J. Pierrepont Finch and he’s been a corporate climber for over 40 years now. Finch is the protagonist of the 1961 stage musical,. […]
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ASO offers something new and jazzy By JOSEPH DALTON Special to the Times Union ALBANY … David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony Orchestra just can’t stop premiering new works … even from dead composers. From the look of it, Friday night’s “Inspired by Jazz” was an exceptional program, by ASO standards at least, with […]
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